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The Liquid Pantomime by Stewart Stafford
Time is life’s shareholder:
Youth’s dark angel investor,
Midlife’s white shark creditor,
The old's Arctic blood liquidator.
Debt, the fledgling's terra incognita,
Misfortune's looking glass kvetch,
Chicks for the boardroom wolf pit,
Waddling forth in immature escrow.
Margin call missives arrive at thirty,
Backstick pressures piping up,
Distressingly hostile AGM invites,
Disbelief morphs into resignation.
Cracking knees bear bankruptcy,
Written off in a balance sheet's glance,
No hibernation in a bear market,
Phased out for new stock issues daily.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.
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